>Its a shame the SMS route and pay-as-you-go SIM is not an option as
>this is the way I would go
>
>Back on the email route. I have not researched but I know I can
>'talk' with my mailserver using telnet and HELO etc

As it seems the ISP is expecting PPP when dialling in, and it seems the PLC 
cannot do PPP, surely the trick is to put a PIC in-between, that converts a 
text stream into a PPP packet, allowing an email to be sent, in the manner 
of the original request?

I know that using a PIC to generate PPP traffic has been discussed here in 
the past, for web serving purposes, but cannot recall if there were ever any 
websites giving schematic and code examples.

For the hardware side, I suspect the quickest trick would be to use a PicKit 
2, and develop some code for it. 

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